Abbey's works inspired radical environmentalists

8:32 PM,
Jan. 28, 2014

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"It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space."

In 1944, Edward L. Abbey graduated from his Indiana, Pa., high school. He was 17, and in eight months he would be drafted into service for World War II. Picking up a ...